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AND TACT IN ARRANGING HOME AND OTHER GROUNDS. 391 



approach. Second, to approach a house from such a 

 direction that a glimpse or suggestion of its side, in addi- 

 tion to the front, meets the eye, gives a more favorable 

 impression than to come up from directly in front, with 

 only one side visible ; but this principle should not be 

 applied to such an extreme as to make the walk lack 

 directness, or to give it a strikingly serpentine course. 

 Third, as seen by passers-by a residence of almost any 

 style appears handsomer when observed from the front 



in one or more beds on either or both sides of a straight 

 walk, as in the original plan, fig. i. 



But one of the chief improvements over fig. i shown 

 in fig. 2 is the opportunity for promoting certain bold 

 effects in landscape vistas, and groups and borders de- 

 voted to woody and other growths. A magnificent view 

 appears in fig. 2, extending back from the street toward 

 and past the well, about in line with the former drive as 

 shown in fig. i. It was our correspondent's suggestion 



Fig. 



-Before MoviNa St.^bles and M.^king Other Changes. 



Fig. 



-Suggestions for the Improvement of Fig. 



across a stretch of lawn than when seen at the end of a 

 straight walk, directly in front of it. Fourth, the advan- 

 tages that have been named will appear about equally 

 marked in reverse order — to a person standing on the 

 front veranda or looking from the front windows. Fifth, 

 in the present instance the location of a bold, irregular 

 group of flowering shrubs directly in front of the veranda 

 gives a better effect than if the same shrubs were arranged 



that the place of this drive be occupied with shrub- 

 bery. That would have been only one step in the right 

 direction. To occupy the ground here in the center with 

 shrubbery would be to impair the vista alluded to, which 

 is not to be thought of, especially as there is ample 

 room for trees and shrubs elsewhere. We therefore 

 recommend that flowering shrubbery, etc., be used freely 

 next to the south boundary, where there is abundant 



